We are all familiar with Matiko – founded back in 2003 by Jesse Howard the label has since then been providing us with shoes that are beyond gorgeous and unbelievably comfortable – take it from me, I own two pairs. The label amalgamates European and South Californian styles effortlessly to produce shoes that are astronomically…
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Destroy X’s creator, Amelia Arsenic has an ambitious objective for her website: ‘I aim to inspire, provoke debate and share my knowledge through regular posts about the wonderfully decadent, eccentric and dark visually exciting world that we find ourselves in.’ Currently residing in New York after living in Berlin, 24 year-old Amelia Arsenic is involved…
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She’s a 17 year old fashion designer making waves in the industry ever since she made her very own homecoming dress, entirely out of newspaper. (See her Newspaper Collection 2011 here). Why newspaper? It was a material that was readily available. “The material wasn’t too hard to keep in tact once I figured out the…
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I just got back from Melbourne. I’ve never been before and was super excited to go – mainly for the shopping and eating, but also, just for the experience. I knew the shopping would probably be a bit better than it would be here – more variety of stores and much more space in the…
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Katlin Kaljuvee is a wildly talented illustrator whose drawings are truly spectacular. Any blogger would be lucky to be illustrated by her and I had a chance to sit down with Katlin and have a chat about fashion, illustration and everything in between. How old were you when you first started illustrating? As I remember…
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The Sartorialist was one of the first fashion blogs I read regularly on the internet. I loved the photographs, how clear they were, what they captured. Once I started searching the internet more, however, the flaws I found within the blog outweighed my enjoyment of it. The other day was the last straw. To be…
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I belong to a few different forums, some of them fashion based. I gave up reading fashion magazines, but I still participate in these forums, for the interactions and for like-minded individuals. Well, mostly like-minded. I mostly keep my politics and beliefs out of these forums and purely focus on the fashion. Sometimes, I need…
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Fashion films are the new lookbook- and this one for Rodarte is particularly lovely. The Curve of Forgotten Things is a dreamy introduction to design duo Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s spring collection, capturing a nostalgic and somewhat eerie atmosphere that may just make you want to grow your hair long and skip through dusty oilfields….
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If you’re fond of elegant, quirky fashion drawings, you’ll love Charlotte Brunskill. Her stylised images of stretched out, leggy girls, all draped in luxurious frocks and creative haute couture, are both effortlessly chic and unapologetically fun, showing a joyful appreciation for the play and imagination of fashion. Charlotte’s experience as a makeup artist puts her…
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“It’s nice to see clothes like this (referring to Chloe’s latest collection) because as gorgeous as they are, you don’t always see yourself wearing the stuff that comes down the runway of a designer like McQueen.” My friend said this to me a few days back while we were going through the latest issue of Grazia…
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I hear the term and I think shoulder-pads. Not the nouveau space-age gaga spikes, but square upholstered mega squares that were de rigueur for my mother and her career set in the 80s. The pads gave women the shouldering power they needed while smashing their way through the cigar sucking man-clans at the office. Dynasty…
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I have fat allies – people who don’t personally identify as fat, but believe in, and support the fat acceptance movement – whether from an academic standpoint or a personal viewpoint. I think having these allies are important. I won’t lie – having allies within the health and academic world is extremely beneficial to the…
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Once upon a time there was a girl who thought too much. Often chided for asking questions which were nigh impossible to answer, she seemed to be stuck in that annoying, but for most people brief, ‘why?’ stage. This story is about her latest fashionosophy* crisis. On Sunday, she took herself off to the races…
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It’s far more offensive than the c-bomb, but unlike the c-bomb there is never an ‘appropriate context’. Fire-crotch. It rates higher on the ‘say that again and I’ll whoop your ass’ scale that than the oft-asked obscure question about my home décor: ‘does the carpet match the drapes?’ Then again, that might just be my…
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